The cowling for the cuddy cabin and the anchor well are now laminated, and I cannot really do any more work on these parts until later when there is a hull to fit them to. It did give me a chance to use up some of the remaining carbon fiber cutoffs to laminate the inside surface of the parts. I wanted to see what an e-glass - foam - carbon structure would look like in terms of stiffness, lightness etc.
Later on I will have to purchase more material for the inside hull surfaces and the thought had occurred to me to use the 6oz weight carbon fiber cloth. There might be an advantage to using the carbon fiber on the inside for stiffness and the e-glass on the outside for abrasion resistance. The candidates for the inside surface are carbon and s-glass (as in my floats). No doubt when I price out the cloths, the small weight benefit with the 6oz carbon over the 9oz s-glass, may well be overwhelmed by the price difference.
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